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Analyst 15 VGChartz sales articles published.
Left you a quick question on Discord regarding NG.
Why do you hate Nintendo ?
Let's say I don't like their aggressive commercial policies... among a lot of others things.
Do you have an e-mail I could send a message to? I'd use the PM system but I'm having to use a beta version of the site and the PM functionality isn't working for it yet.
Hi. Recently in the Japanese charts Dragon Quest X did better on Wii U and Switch than on PS4. This really confused me, so I had to go to the only analyst I know on VGChartz(too lazy to make a ResetEra account). What does this mean? Does this mean that the PS4 will lose all Japanese support? Will it all go to Switch? Could it .. mean the end of Sony in Japan? You know, from a completely psychological standpoint of course. Or was it hypothetical? Anyways, I don't know what's happening.
My view on this is that Japan was hit by a major heatwave that week, which made people go back to WiiU. I believe it will be the start of a series of major climate changes in which gamers will progressively return to older systems. Game Gear will rise again and ultimately Tails' Adventure will be the best-selling game of 2021. I hope I could be of help on this concerning subject.
Well, that was about as helpful as your other contributions on this site, consistency is a good quality to have!
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Q: How to properly make my own module that imports another module within it? I use a .txt file with this, and each line looks like the following:
 1/2/09,902,898.5,905.25,913.25,914.5,914.25,915.5,924.5,926.25,929.25,927.5,926

There are probably 50 such lines in the .txt file.
Here is the code that I made:
class PriceProcesseor(object):

    import csv
    import datetime

    def __init__(self, text_file_with_prices):
        self.text_file_with_prices = text_file_with_prices
        self.file_each_date_is_a_list_of_strings = self.__turn_file_into_list()

    def __turn_file_into_list(self):
        self.text_file_with_prices1 = open(self.text_file_with_prices, 'rU')
        self.text_file_with_prices2 = csv.reader(self.text_file_with_prices1)
        return self.text_file_with_prices2

    def file_as_list(self):
        '''Returns the file as a list of strings'''
        self.whole_file_as_list_of_lists = []
        for x in self.file_each_date_is_a_list_of_strings:
            self.whole_file_as_list_of_lists.append(x)
        return self.whole_file_as_list_of_lists

    # Make a method that can return any given line

    def return_line(self,line_number):
        self.line_number = line_number
        return self.file_as_list()[line_number]

    def the_works(self):
        self.the_works_list = []
        for date in self.file_as_list():
            self.mini_list = []
            for item in date:
                if '/' in item:
                    self.date = str(datetime.datetime.strptime(item,'%m/%d/%y'))
                    self.date_munged = self.date.strip('00:00:00')
                    self.date_munged_1 = self.date_munged.strip()
                    self.mini_list.append(self.date_munged_1)
                elif '/' not in item:
                    self.mini_list.append(float(item))
            self.the_works_list.append(self.mini_list)
        return self.the_works_list

But when I do this:
my_file = '/directory1/directory2/the_file.txt'
xyz = PriceProcesseor(my_file)
xyz.the_works()

I get the error message:
NameError: global name 'csv' is not defined

What is being done wrong?

A: Put the import statements outside the class definition.
import csv
import datetime

class PriceProcesseor(object):
#etc.

The class block creates a scope.  When you import things in that scope, they are only accessible in that scope.  The class scope is not directly accessible to methods of the class, so they can't see the imported modules.

A: So the correct way to do with would be the following:
import csv
import datetime

class PriceProcesseor(object):

    def __init__(self, text_file_with_prices):
        self.text_file_with_prices = text_file_with_prices
        self.file_each_date_is_a_list_of_strings = self.__turn_file_into_list()

    def __turn_file_into_list(self):
        self.text_file_with_prices1 = open(self.text_file_with_prices, 'rU')
        self.text_file_with_prices2 = csv.reader(self.text_file_with_prices1)
        return self.text_file_with_prices2

    def file_as_list(self):
        '''Returns the file as a list of strings'''
        self.whole_file_as_list_of_lists = []
        for x in self.file_each_date_is_a_list_of_strings:
            self.whole_file_as_list_of_lists.append(x)
        return self.whole_file_as_list_of_lists

    # Make a method that can return any given line

    def return_line(self,line_number):
        self.line_number = line_number
        return self.file_as_list()[line_number]

    def the_works(self):
        self.the_works_list = []
        for date in self.file_as_list():
            self.mini_list = []
            for item in date:
                if '/' in item:
                    self.date = str(datetime.datetime.strptime(item,'%m/%d/%y'))

Next I save the file as ABC123.py. When I type import ABC123 everything will work perfectly.

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Hernia Repair - LAPSurgery Australia Pty. Ltd.
Inguinal and femoral hernias, referred to as groin hernias, are very common. Approximately 10,000 hernia operations are performed in Victoria each year.
Inguinal hernias occur in up to 10 percent of males but are much less common in females. Femoral hernias are more common in women than men but are much less common than inguinal hernias. The most serious complication of groin hernias is strangulation. This occurs when a segment of the bowel is caught in the hernia and becomes obstructed or even gangrenous – medical attention must be sought immediately. This complication is more common in femoral hernias. Hernias never cure themselves and almost always require surgery for repair.
LapSurgery Australia offers a complete service for all hernias including groin hernias, umbilical and incisional hernias using both kehyhole and non-keyhole techniques. As we can perform both keyhole and non-keyhole procedures equally well, you can be assured that you will receive appropriate advice and skilled surgery specific to your condition and circumstances. The merits of keyhole v. non keyhole surgery will be discussed with you carefully before surgery is undertaken.
Costs vary depending on your health insurance. The funding provided by Medicare and Health Funds for this revolutionary operation is no higher than for the old non-keyhole method. Consequently there will be out of pocket costs involved and the following information explains what to expect. Unfortunately LapSurgery Australia do not operate in public hospitals but should you wish to pay to have your surgery done in a private hospital an estimate of costs can be provided following a consultation with one of our surgeons.
LapSurgery Australia surgeons charge through the "Known Gap" scheme for a majority of Health Funds. This means that you pay a co-payment to the surgeon before the operation and the balance of the surgeon's account is sent directly to the Health Fund. If you are with one of the few Health Funds that do not allow co-payments, your out of pocket costs will be higher. If you have no private insurance the cost will be substantial and an estimate will be given to you after seeing a surgeon.
There will be charges from both the Assistant Surgeon and Anaesthetist. Accounts for these services vary and are independent of LapSurgery Australia. We are able to advise you of the individuals providing these services once a date has been scheduled for your surgery.
Out of pocket costs for the Hospital vary depending on your Health Fund, level of cover, excess etc. For an accurate cost, please refer to your Health Fund or the Hospital.
The Medicare item number you will need to quote is 30609.
It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to check that your health insurance is up to date and whether there will be any excess charges. LapSurgery Australia cannot check this for you.
The normal services required for your operation are listed above. Occasionally patients require additional medical care and may incur charges for pathology, radiology and other specialists.
A hernia is a protrusion of an organ or body part through the wall of a cavity in which it is normally enclosed. What this means, in the case of groin hernia, is that part of the abdominal contents, either bowel or fatty tissue, protrudes through the abdominal wall at the inguinal or femoral canal and comes out just below the skin. In males, a large hernia can descend into the scrotum.
The inguinal canal is an oblique passage through the abdominal wall which, in the male, transmits the artery and vein to the testicle and the vas deferens. In the female, only the round ligament of the uterus goes through the inguinal canal and this is perhaps why inguinal hernia is less common in women. The inguinal canal is one of several weak spots in the abdominal wall where a hernia can occur.
How do I know if I have a groin hernia?
The commonest symptom of a hernia is the presence of a lump in the groin. Sometimes hernias can be painful, but small hernias may not be noticed initially by the patient and are sometimes found unexpectedly at a routine examination. Often the lump is more prominent at the end of the day, disappears when lying down and may not be apparent after a night's sleep.
In rare instances, the first presentation of a hernia is a very painful lump in the groin which does not go away when lying down and may be associated with generalised pain across the abdomen and vomiting. This is caused by strangulation and should this happen it is an extreme emergency and immediate medical attention must be sought.
For the vast majority of patients, a hernia is diagnosed by a simple physical examination from your general practitioner or specialist. In some cases ultrasound examination of the groin is used but most surgeons are sceptical of the accuracy of ultrasound examination for hernia. The results of ultrasound examination must be interpreted in conjunction with a physical examination by your general practitioner or specialist surgeon.
Hernias which occur in childhood or adolescence are probably congenital. In adults a hernia is usually acquired. Although not well proven, it is thought that occupations involving heavy lifting or manual work increase the chance of developing a hernia. Cigarette smoking, chronic constipation, obesity, prostate disease and chronic coughing are also thought to predispose to hernia formation. In many patients none of these factors is present and the development of a hernia is thought to be related to the fact that the inguinal and femoral canals are natural areas of weakness in the body wall.
Why can't I just wear a truss?
A truss is a type of belt with padding which goes over the inguinal canal to keep the hernia from coming out during normal activity. They are generally uncomfortable, will not cure the hernia and do not prevent strangulation. We strongly recommend against the use of a truss except in those very rare people who are too sick to undergo operative repair of the hernia. A truss must NEVER be used on a femoral hernia.
What is keyhole surgery for hernia?
Laparoscopic or keyhole surgery for hernias has evolved over the last 10 years. There have been several different ways of performing keyhole surgery for hernia, but the worldwide trend is toward the totally extra peritoneal (TEP) repair which is what we at LapSurgery Australia perform. The advantage of this method is that the peritoneum (the cavity containing the bowels) is not entered. A space is made by inflating a balloon between the lining of the peritoneal cavity and the groin muscles and inflating the space with CO2 gas to create a working space.
The standard (non-keyhole) operation involves a large incision in the groin (or both groins if there are hernias present on both sides), finding the hernia and patching the defect with polypropylene mesh.
In the keyhole operation a 1.5 cm (3/4 inch) incision is made just below the umbilicus (bellybutton) and two further tiny incisions are placed between the umbilicus and the pubis. No further incisions are required even if there are hernias in both groins. The hernia is identified and the defect repaired with mesh as in the open (non-keyhole) operation.
Should everyone have a keyhole operation for hernia?
Very large hernias may not be suitable for keyhole repair.
Patients with previous lower abdominal surgery may not be suitable.
Patients unable to tolerate a general anaesthetic are not suitable.
Patients who do not have a need for quick recovery may be better off with the less complex non-keyhole operation.
Patients without private health cover may find the extra hospital costs of the keyhole operation are not justified.
What hospitals do LapSurgery Australia surgeons attend?
A number of factors have been proposed as being disadvantages of the keyhole operation and these will be discussed with you at your consultation with your surgeon. All surgery involves some risk. Risks can be broken down into two groups, those related to surgery in general and those specific to the operation being performed. Risks of surgery in general include risks of anaesthetics, infections inside the abdomen and in the wound, lung problems, blood clots in the leg or lungs and even death. If you have other health problems such as heart or lung problems, diabetes, smoking or excess weight the general risks of surgery are increased.
The operation takes longer. This is certainly true when a surgeon is learning how to do this quite complex procedure, but the experience of surgeons at LapSurgery Australia shows that once the keyhole technique is mastered, there is very little difference in time taken between the keyhole and non-keyhole operation.
There is a higher incidence of serious complications. This is true if the raw data published in the medical literature is examined. However, the same can be said of a number of new operations introduced over the last few years such as keyhole gallbladder surgery. As experience with these new techniques is gained, the complication rate declines to minimal levels. LapSurgery Australia surgeons have encountered no major complications specific to the keyhole operation.
In the exceptionally rare situation of a complication of the mesh such as infection or mesh rejection, the mesh is more difficult to remove than when it is on the outside of the muscles as with the non-keyhole operation. LapSurgery Australia accepts that this may be a disadvantage of the keyhole operation, but removal of mesh from any part of the body at any time can be extremely difficult and result in complications. Estimates of the chance of mesh infection or rejection range from 1 per thousand cases to 1 per 3000 cases.
The small incisions result in less pain and earlier return to work, especially when hernias are present on both sides.
By positioning the mesh on the inside of the defect, the very sensitive nerves in the inguinal canal are not damaged or irritated by the mesh as can occur in the non-keyhole operation.


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Jacques Santer, né le  à Wasserbillig (Luxembourg), est un homme politique luxembourgeois, membre du Parti populaire chrétien-social (CSV).

Biographie
Jacques Santer nait le  à Wasserbillig au Luxembourg.

Il obtient un diplôme de Docteur en droit et a obtenu un certificat de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris.

Engagement politique au Luxembourg

Il s'engage dans la politique luxembourgeoise en 1963 en devenant attaché au cabinet du ministre du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale. Il conservera ce poste jusqu'en 1965. Après cette position, il deviendra, jusqu'en 1966, attaché du gouvernement.
Entre 1966 et 1972, il devient secrétaire parlementaire du parti chrétien-social puis devient, à cette date, secrétaire d'État aux Affaires culturelles et aux Affaires sociales. Il conservera ce porte-feuille jusqu'en 1974. Il est, en parallèle, secrétaire général du parti chrétien-social.
Entre 1974 et 1982, il est président du parti chrétien-social. Dans cet intervalle, il est député entre 1974 et 1979, et échevin de la ville de Luxembourg entre 1976 et 1979. Il quitte ces fonctions pour devenir ministre des Finances, du Travail et de la Sécurité sociale en 1979. Il le restera jusqu'en 1984.

De 1984 à 1989, il a exercé les fonctions de président du gouvernement en étant simultanément ministre d'État et ministre des Finances et du Trésor; puis de 1989 à 1995, il a été Premier ministre du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, exerçant simultanément les fonctions de ministre d'État du Trésor, ainsi que ministre des Affaires culturelles.

Engagement politique européen et international
Jacques Santer est élu député européen en 1975. Il exercera la présidence du parlement entre 1975 et 1977. Il est réélu en 1979.

De juillet à , puis de janvier à , il préside le Conseil européen en même temps que Jacques Poos,(vice Premier ministre du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg)  préside le Conseil de l'Union européenne.

De 1987 à 1990, il est président du parti populaire européen.

Après son départ de la Commission européenne, il redevient membre du Parlement européen de 1999 à 2004.

En , Santer est devenu membre honoraire de SME Europe, l'organisation officielle du Parti populaire européen en faveur des entreprises.

Il a ensuite été de  à  l'un des 105 membres de la Convention sur l'avenir de l'Europe chargés de rédiger le traité établissant une Constitution pour l'Europe, aussi appelé Traité de Rome.

Il a été membre de la Commission trilatérale, un organisme qui regroupe 300 à 400 personnalités parmi les plus remarquées et influentes – hommes d'affaires, hommes politiques, décideurs, intellectuels – de l'Europe occidentale, de l'Amérique du Nord et de l'Asie du Pacifique, ayant pour but la promotion de la coopération politique et économique entre ces trois régions.

Le , Jacques Santer a été nommé au conseil d'administration du SPIV, un dispositif complexe de gestion d'investissements, conçu pour renforcer la capacité du Fonds européen de stabilité financière, le fonds de sauvetage pour la zone euro.

Il est actuellement président du groupe Europe de l'Union des fédéralistes européens

Présidence de la Commission

Nomination et travaux
Il devient le neuvième président de la Commission européenne en 1995, Commission qu'il présidera jusqu'en 1999. Sa nomination est l'œuvre d'un compromis entre le Royaume-Uni et la position franco-allemande, après que le candidat franco-allemand, le Belge Jean-Luc Dehaene, se fut heurté au veto du Premier ministre britannique John Major. La sélection de Santer a été ratifiée de justesse (260 voix pour, 238 contre et 29 abstentions) par un Parlement européen contrarié par le processus de sélection des présidents de la Commission.

La Commission Santer a, notamment :
 Supervisé l'élaboration du traité de Nice avant sa signature en 2000 et les négociations avec ces pays en vue de l'adhésion en 2004.
 Préparé la signature du traité d'Amsterdam en 1997.
 Contribué au développement de l'euro et publié une série de livres verts, basés sur les travaux du commissaire Yves-Thibault de Silguy.
 Développé le symbole monétaire de l'euro.
 Créé l'euro le .
 Poursuivi l'agenda social de Jacques Delors, en réclamant davantage de pouvoirs dans ce domaine, notamment pour lutter contre le chômage.
 Présenté des propositions de réforme de la politique agricole commune.

Démission
Jacques Santer a remis la démission de toute la Commission en , consécutivement à des contestations du Parlement européen menaçant de la censurer à la suite des allégations de mauvaise gestion qui visaient plusieurs membres de cette même Commission. Un rapport accablant sur la fraude et le népotisme mettait en cause certains membres de la Commission européenne pour ses graves manquements en matière de gestion.

Comme les commissaires impliqués ont refusé de démissionner et que le président de la Commission européenne n'avait pas le pouvoir de renvoyer les commissaires individuellement, Santer décida de démissionner le , le jour de la publication du rapport, entraînant la démission de l'ensemble de sa commission.

Le rapport d'experts indépendants fait état de la .

Les principaux commissaires mis en cause par le rapport étaient : Édith Cresson, l'ancien Premier ministre socialiste français et commissaire chargée de la recherche et de l'éducation, pour fraude et favoritisme ; le socialiste espagnol Manuel Marín, premier vice-président et commissaire aux Relations extérieures avec le Sud de la Méditerranée, l'Amérique latine et le Moyen-Orient, pour ne pas avoir retardé de deux ans le déclenchement d'une enquête sur les dysfonctionnements signalés par la Cour des comptes européenne ; la commissaire sociale démocrate allemande Monika Wulf-Mathies et le commissaire social-démocrate portugais João de Deus Pinheiro, chargé des relations avec les pays d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique, pour favoritisme, la radicale-socialiste italienne Emma Bonino, chargée de l'aide humanitaire, et Jacques Santer pour certaines irrégularités.

Carrière dans l'économie
Jacques Santer est gouverneur de la Banque mondiale de 1984 à 1989, puis gouverneur du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) de 1989 à 1994, et enfin gouverneur de la Banque européenne pour la reconstruction et le développement (BERD) de 1991 à 1995.

En 1999, un an après avoir quitté la présidence de la Commission européenne, Jacques Santer est entré dans le conseil d'administration de General Mediterranean Holding (GenMed), une société de portefeuille appartenant à l'anglo-irakien Nadhmi Auchi.

Il siège également au conseil d'administration de RTL Group, une société internationale de diffusion et de production télévisées.

Vie privée

Jacques Santer était marié à une Française (+), professeur de sciences naturelles, et a deux fils.

Autres fonctions
Jacques Santer est ministre d'État honoraire du Luxembourg et président de la Fondation du Mérite européen.

Il est aussi président du Groupe Europe, une section membre de l'Union des fédéralistes européens.

Il est par ailleurs président du conseil d'administration du Musée d'Art moderne grand-duc Jean (Mudam).

Distinctions
En 1995, Santer est devenu le premier destinataire de la Vision pour l'Europe Award. Il est également lauréat du prix Princesse des Asturies en 1998 et docteur honoris causa de l'université d'Alicante.

Décorations

  Grand-croix de l'de l'ordre du Faucon (, 1990)
  Grand-cordon de l'ordre du Soleil levant  (, 2015)
  Grand-croix de l'ordre de la Couronne de chêne ()
  Grand-croix de l'ordre de Mérite du grand-duché de Luxembourg  ()
  Médaille d'or du Mérite culturel polonais Gloria Artis (, 2008)
  Grand-croix de l'ordre de l'Infant Dom Henrique (, 1990)
  Grand-croix de l'ordre du Christ (, 1988)
  Grand-croix de l' (, 2004)

Références

Liens externes

  Interview de Jacques Santer. Luxembourg: CVCE (Anciennement European NAvigator), , 4 min 32 s
  Crise de la Commission Santer - Événements historiques de la construction européenne (1945-2014), dossier établi par le CVCE.eu de l'Université du Luxembourg (Consulté le ).

Président de la Commission européenne
Commissaire européen luxembourgeois
Commission Santer
Premier ministre du Luxembourg
Ministre luxembourgeois de la Sécurité sociale
Ministre luxembourgeois de la Culture
Ministre d'État (Luxembourg)
Président du Parti populaire chrétien-social (Luxembourg)
Personnalité du Parti populaire chrétien-social (Luxembourg)
Député européen élu au Luxembourg 1979-1984
Député européen élu au Luxembourg 1999-2004
Personnalité politique luxembourgeoise
Personnalité européenne
Docteur honoris causa de l'université d'Alicante
Lauréat du prix Princesse des Asturies en sciences sociales
Grand-croix de l'ordre de la Couronne de chêne
Grand-croix de l'ordre de Mérite du grand-duché de Luxembourg
Grand-croix de l'ordre de l'Infant Dom Henri
Grand-croix de l'ordre du Christ
Grand-croix de l'ordre du Faucon
Récipiendaire de la médaille d'or du Mérite culturel polonais Gloria Artis
Récipiendaire de l'ordre du Soleil levant de première classe
Fondation du Mérite européen
Docteur en droit
Élève de l'Athénée de Luxembourg
Élève de l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris
Étudiant de l'université de Strasbourg
Étudiant de l'université d'Amsterdam
Naissance à Mertert
Fédéraliste européen
Naissance en mai 1937

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Software engineering processes are the basis for the development of quality software products within time and within budget. In this paper we present an approach to detect process conformance violations that reveal deviations between planned and executed software engineering processes. The approach is based on process rules that complement the process documentation. A framework for defining, executing and evaluating these rules has been implemented as extension to an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution. The framework has been applied in context of introducing new processes and practices in an industrial environment. Over the timespan of more than a year, process conformance has been continuously evaluated as part of the nightly build. We were able to demonstrate that the results can be used to identify hot spots in process conformance calling for immediate action, to reveal long-term issues that motivate process improvement measures and, furthermore, that the continuous feedback provided by the approach has a positive impact on process quality. Finally, the paper documents useful lessons we have learned during the application of our approach in a real-world setting.


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namespace Kunstmaan\AdminBundle\Helper\Menu;

use Kunstmaan\AdminBundle\Helper\Menu\MenuBuilder;
use Kunstmaan\AdminBundle\Helper\Menu\MenuItem;
use Kunstmaan\AdminBundle\Helper\Menu\MenuAdaptorInterface;
use Kunstmaan\AdminBundle\Helper\Menu\TopMenuItem;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerInterface;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

/**
 * SettingsMenuAdaptor to add the Settings MenuItem to the top menu and build the Settings tree
 */
class SettingsMenuAdaptor implements MenuAdaptorInterface
{
    /**
     * @var ContainerInterface
     */
    private $container;

    /**
     * Constructor
     *
     * @param ContainerInterface $container
     */
    public function __construct(ContainerInterface $container)
    {
        $this->container = $container;
    }

    /**
     * In this method you can add children for a specific parent, but also remove and change the already created children
     *
     * @param MenuBuilder $menu      The MenuBuilder
     * @param MenuItem[]  &$children The current children
     * @param MenuItem    $parent    The parent Menu item
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    {
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                ->setRole('settings');
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            }
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                    $menuItem = new MenuItem($menu);
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                        $menuItem->setActive(true);
                    }
                    $children[] = $menuItem;
                }
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        }
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Oil is by far the most popular natural resource making headlines on a weekly basis in Alberta and for good reason – the Province has relied on its vast reserves of petroleum for both economic and political reasons.
With impending decisions to be made regarding the future transport of this coveted resource, whether it be through pipelines such as Keystone XL or by rail, Alberta will continue to be known in some circles as a "petrostate," but to what degree is a topic economics professor Alan MacFadyen has tackled extensively.
Last month, MacFadyen, an Emeritus at the University of Calgary who established the petroleum economics program within the Department of Economics, examined this, and the history of Alberta's oil industry, during a talk at the Seniors' Centre in Canmore.
According to the professor, the Province is somewhere in between a mild and extreme version of a "petrostate." Read the full story at the Rocky Mountain Outlook.
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Blind Spots: The 2018 Puterbaugh Keynote
Kurt Beals
Photo: Shevaun Williams & Associates
After watching the dance adaptation of her story "Sand" at the 2018 Puterbaugh Festival, Erpenbeck delivered the following keynote, in which she invited the hundreds of attendees in the audience to reckon with their own blind spots—we must "step back in order to see," she writes, "the entire historical tapestry extending far beyond [our] own lifetimes."
I'm very pleased to speak to you today, particularly since so many fundamental questions that have been hibernating in some blind spot of our consciousness for the past two decades have recently taken on an unaccustomed urgency. Many concepts have suddenly become acute, as it were, and it might be worthwhile to consider their meaning once again from a fresh perspective. One of these concepts, of course, is that of the border—along with the concepts of transition and transgression, in the sense of border crossing. Closely related to these is the concept of freedom.
I was in my early twenties when the Berlin Wall fell and the country where I had grown up disappeared in the course of just a few weeks. Every East German could go to the West to receive 100 "Westmarks," known as "welcome money," and six months later the transition to the West German currency marked the official "reunification"—in other words, the end of the German Democratic Republic, nowadays called East Germany, and the expansion of the German Federal Republic. From that moment on, anyone could say whatever he wanted about the former head of state Erich Honecker, or the Stasi head Erich Mielke—or even about the West German chancellor, Helmut Kohl!—and anyone could travel to Paris, Venice, or New York. While people were still celebrating this new "software," as we might call it today, drastic changes were taking place in the "hardware" as well. A public trust sold a number of East German factories for literally one mark to West German companies, which closed them shortly thereafter. Many workers lost their jobs, and university professors, lecturers, and researchers were also laid off in the East and replaced by university professors, lecturers, and researchers from the West. When the common currency was introduced, rents increased by a factor of ten overnight. West German speculators bought up East German real estate, and state-owned enterprises were privatized. The so-called new federal states were transformed into an enormous market, where all sorts of things could be successfully sold—as we've seen, not just bananas. Suddenly everyone was talking about money. Wait, we could talk about money? Shocking.
Ever since then, there has been a border between the two halves of my life: a border made of time, between the first half of my life, which was transformed into history by the fall of the wall and the collapse of the East German state, and the second half, which began at that same moment. Without this experience of transition, from one world to a very other one, I probably never would have started writing. That much is clear to me today. My writing began with reflections on borders, reflections on how we change over the course of our lives, voluntarily or involuntarily, reflections on what identity is, and how much we can lose without losing ourselves.
I HAD KNOWN this border all my life, but when it disappeared in 1989, it went very quickly. Why did it go so quickly? Because we East and West Germans shared a language? Because we, or some of us at least, had families that spanned the East/West divide? "Blood relatives"? Because the works of Goethe and Schiller were taught in schools on both sides of the wall?
Ever since 1989, there has been a border between the two halves of my life: a border made of time. Without this experience of transition, from one world to a very other one, I probably never would have started writing.
Why did people always pronounce the word "freedom" with such enthusiasm, as they continue to do today, whenever they speak of the collapse of East Germany, whereas when people from other countries strive for freedom—from countries like Mali, Niger, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mexico, Haiti, and other "shitholes," as Donald Trump recently described them—they're met with contempt and aversion?
Why do we still see pictures on TV every year on the anniversary of the fall of the wall, showing happy East Germans jubilantly sitting astride the wall—whereas pictures of people scaling the twenty-foot barbed-wire fence that separates the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco only inspire tougher security measures from the European Union?
Why do we still hear laments for the Germans who died attempting to flee over the wall but almost none for the countless refugees who have drowned in the Mediterranean in recent years, turning the sea into a giant grave? Why is it that the opening of the border in 1989 was something wonderful, but today voices cry out for new and stronger borders? What is the difference between these two groups of people who aspire to a new life, to this thing we call "freedom"?
The answer is: nothing.
But there is another answer, too: the difference is the history of these groups and the significance attached to these events.
SEEN FROM THE WEST, the collapse of the Eastern Bloc marked the victorious end of the Cold War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall signified the failure of Communist ideals and utopias. The bankruptcy of any economic system that rejected profit motives could be seen in the parade of Trabis, those iconic East German cars that made their way to West Berlin the night that the wall fell. By contrast, the images of the Spanish enclave of Melilla, the televised images of overcrowded refugee boats, and the designs for the Mexican border wall tell very different stories: stories of postcolonial exodus and of the one-way street of globalization, a system in which European and North American countries, and more recently China, move money around the world, forming alliances with the corrupt elites of other nations to exploit their raw materials, often with the aid of war and violence, while refusing to accept the people who flee from these exploited nations, viewing them as a sort of waste product unwelcome "on our shores."
True, the Geneva Convention defines the term "refugee," and the countries that signed this convention agreed to guarantee the right of asylum to political refugees, for example. It's is a good thing, a very good thing, that Germany fixed this right in its constitution. Nevertheless, the relevant paragraph of the constitution, like all paragraphs of all laws, serves not only to include certain particular "cases" but also to exclude other cases: for instance, the cases of those who are classified as "merely" economic refugees.
Consider, for instance, the young Tuareg man in my most recent novel, Go, Went, Gone: the state-owned French company Areva mines uranium in Niger. In return, it makes payments to the government of Niger, but this money never finds its way to the Tuareg, those disconcertingly defiant nomadic people who have lived traditionally for thousands of years in the region now claimed for mining. The extraction of uranium from the cliffs requires a great deal of water, which causes the water level to drop. Areva has even cut off Tuareg access to some watering holes entirely. Radioactive waste pollutes the ground. This has consequences for the camel herds on which the Tuareg depend for their livelihood; but it has even greater consequences for the Tuareg themselves. The rate of cancer and premature death for people in these regions is strikingly high. The energy produced in French atomic power plants from uranium mined in Niger continues to flow in France and Germany. But where is the freedom for one of these nomads to leave his country and seek his livelihood somewhere else, like France or Germany? Is a person in this situation really an "economic refugee"? Isn't he a political refugee after all? To say nothing of the destruction of age-old structures by these European corporations, social structures that have governed the lives of these people in their native countries for millenia, to say nothing of the moral and social vacuum that this destruction leaves behind, or of the violence and terror that flourish in this vacuum. To say nothing, even, of the consequences all this will have for future generations: the forced surrender of traditions, the loss of hope, the loss of autonomy, and of control over one's own existence.
LAST FALL, when I visited Princeton for a reading, I met a professor who proudly mentioned that she had urged one of Angela Merkel's advisers to accept Syrian refugees. But her advice was not that Germany should accept the refugees instead of rejecting them; rather, it was that if Germany had to accept refugees at all, then at least it should accept Syrian refugees instead of others who were less well educated and sophisticated. And they had to act fast before other countries beat them to the punch. She told Merkel's adviser that Syrians were elite as far as refugees were concerned; they'd be the easiest to integrate and the quickest to pay back into the system. That way Germany wouldn't have to accept those poor suckers, you know, the ones from the "shitholes"—like Niger, for example.
In the modern world of passports, quotas, emergency shelters, and exploitative black-market labor, survival is an ongoing, drawn-out process so painful that many people cannot endure it.
We saw the deal that Erdoğan and Merkel negotiated in 2016: for every illegal refugee who was sent back from Greece to Turkey, Germany would accept one legal refugee who was entitled to asylum. But after this deal was made, we saw how Erdoğan kept the educated, upper-class Syrian refugees in Turkey and only sent the old and infirm refugees to Germany. Maybe he'd gotten advice from the same Princeton professor. This distinction between life that is worth something and life that is worth nothing is a distinction that was made under Hitler, too. And it remains a matter of life and death, even if that may not be apparent at first sight. Survival is not just about the moment when someone is pulled from an overcrowded refugee boat, the moment when someone scales a fence. In the modern world of passports, quotas, emergency shelters, and exploitative black-market labor, survival is an ongoing, drawn-out process so painful that many people cannot endure it.
ONE OF THE REFUGEES I spoke with for my last book suffered a mental breakdown after years of wandering around Europe without being allowed to work—a long odyssey that apparently included incidents of violence and abuse. He is now institutionalized in an Italian mental hospital, where he will probably remain forever.
Another, who had been granted temporary papers and a small apartment in Berlin on account of his serious heart problems, suffered a heart attack and died in that same apartment after barely a year. As I write in my most recent book, his father had been killed fifteen years earlier in religious unrest in Nigeria, and his own two small children died in 2011 when the boat that was meant to carry them to safety in Europe capsized. After his death, it was discovered that in spite of his serious illness, he had been housing eight other people in his one-and-a-half room flat, including a family of four with two small children. After years in emergency shelters, he was happy to finally have his own apartment, where he could offer help to friends who didn't know where else to turn.
When I went to the Muslim funeral home after his death, I learned that Syrian refugees often break down and die in the very moment when their families are allowed to join them—simply because the worry and the psychological strain on refugees in Germany are so great. When this pressure is finally lifted, when the tension begins to loosen, their hold on their own lives loosens as well, with fatal consequences. The funeral home employee then added, without a trace of cynicism, that once the applicant has passed away, of course the family's immigration authorization is revoked.
While I was serving as volunteer legal guardian for one young refugee, another boy who lived in the same home for underage refugees—a sixteen-year-old Afghan boy—jumped to his death from a fourth-floor window.
A friend of mine has been caring for another teenage boy for two years; the boy recently learned that his mother had died in Afghanistan. Since then, he hardly ever leaves the room; he just lies in bed under the covers and doesn't go to school. While his classmates learn about mathematical constructs, English grammar, and nineteenth-century art history, this boy asks himself what will happen to his younger brother, whom their mother had been caring for. He asks himself if he failed as a son.
We hear stories like these, from this parallel world, from these blind spots in the happier world we seem to see around us—if only we are willing to look and listen.
But are we willing?
LISTENING IS AN ART—it is a risk—because those blind spots hide our own guilt and impotence. Even things that go wrong in other people's lives make us begin to fear for our own because it means that misfortune as such has not yet been cast out of our universe, and it may be infectious. What if there are problems that even money can't solve? We fear what can't be solved; we fear the gap that yawns between two sentences.
I am not a refugee, but my past also took place in a different country, and it was a stroke of good fortune that the Federal Republic simply issued us new West German passports—something refugees today can only dream of. But if someone like me, a privileged person who reaped the benefits of this transition, insists on speaking not only of benefits, but also of costs, are you willing to listen? If I say that despite all the comforts that I enjoy today, there is still a trace of sadness that cannot be effaced by the gains—how do you respond? Do you ask what that could be? Can you imagine that even in a country that is almost never spoken of without the qualifying phrase "rogue regime," someone could have had a happy childhood? Or that a number of my friends and I felt, when the reunification came, that history was simply sliding backward instead of moving forward? It is exhausting to think about these things, and to speak about them, just as it is to hear about them—just as it always is when things can't be easily separated into black and white. A language is more than a code.
Listening is an art—it is a risk—because those blind spots hide our own guilt and impotence.
The German Democratic Republic, as you all know, was that country with the wall, where everyone spied on everyone else, where the factories that had been the property of the East German people for forty years were left in a ramshackle condition, where all the streets were decked out in banners boasting ridiculous slogans. What else is there to say about that miniature Germany? The answer to this question is a deafening silence that grows louder from decade to decade. Is memory an instrument of power? Probably. How far do you have to step back in order to see an entire historical tapestry extending far beyond your own lifetime? How much do you have to know in order to understand what it really is that's flourishing in your own blind spot?
AS A WRITER, I can take some satisfaction in the fact that I experienced such an upheaval, that I felt what it is like when a system that seems prepared to last for all eternity, through good times and bad, is suddenly wiped out in a matter of weeks. "Things will not stay as they are," Brecht wrote in a poem, and in that poem his sentence resounded with hope. Of course it can also be understood as a terrifying prophecy. And it seems to me that we only experience its truth when we learn to endure both gains and losses, which are often inseparably intertwined. When the wall fell, many East Germans ran straight into the arms of the new, the unknown. They ran with open arms to greet this new era, not knowing that its arrival would mark them forever as second-class citizens.
I REMEMBER A SCENE that occurred shortly after the fall of the wall, a few weeks before Christmas. In the dark of a December evening, a truck with a West Berlin license plate was parked on a muddy lot near the border crossing. From the tailgate of the truck, a westerner, apparently the owner of a paper store, was handing out Christmas-themed wrapping paper to us East Germans, so that we, the needy people who didn't have such lovely, shiny wrapping paper, could have a chance to enjoy something pretty for a change. I'm sure that he meant well, he wanted to help.
How far do you have to step back in order to see an entire historical tapestry extending far beyond your own lifetime?
The young woman who hurried past that scene as quickly as she could was in the blind spot of his consciousness. I was twenty-two at the time.
For me, his gesture as he handed down those rolls of paper from the tailgate embodied the whole misery of our inequality; it was a gesture of objective arrogance, so to speak. Most of all, it carried the message: I am above, and you are below. I come from another world, and I will only be here for a little while. This zone is contaminated, I'd rather not even set foot in it. I'm the one who can afford to give gifts. The present time that I live in is beautiful, shiny; it is already the future. Whereas the present time that these people live in, the needy people reaching for the wonderful wrapping paper, is just now turning into a "past present," that is to say, a past, which might best be left behind in that winter darkness, trampled into the mud. It's no accident that official usage since 1990 has referred to the "territory of the former German Democratic Republic" or to "former GDR citizens." Linguists ought to examine whether this designation makes any sense at all.
In retrospect, by the way, it seems particularly telling that the gift handed out by the generous paper seller was wrapping paper. Right after the fall of the wall, I started collecting East German packaging; I hung some samples on the wall of our Berlin apartment. They were made of rough, acidic paper, and they've faded so much from the sunlight that you can barely read the print: Good buy—glad buy! Or: That's where I shop! As if every shopper were a child. You can tell from the packaging that buying and selling didn't mean much in that country. The gray, gray East. Have you ever imagined Times Square without advertising? We reused our Christmas paper again and again, year after year. We kept our favorite paper in the family; after we exchanged gifts, my mother would fold it up and put it away in a basket, where it would stay until the following year. The practice of writing names on the wrapping paper was frowned upon, as was the use of tape, which might damage the paper when the gifts were unwrapped.
Of course, the nice paper seller who bent down to us from the tailgate couldn't have known any of that. And he didn't need to, either, since it wasn't long before the West German mark was introduced and we started buying that shiny wrapping paper for ourselves. We painted our houses in new, up-to-date colors, the fashion models from the East had their teeth straightened (even though no one had noticed before that they were slightly crooked), and the radio station suddenly decided that my voice was too high to read the book reviews I had written myself and hired someone else to read them instead. All these changes served the same purpose, creating a new image that disguised the realities, giving the former East a face-lift. It was a complex transition to a world where things looked pretty and healthy, sounded good and wholesome, a transition to a world of pleasant aromas and smooth objects that fit comfortably in your hand: in other words, a world of things that were easy to sell, things that people were eager to buy. Whatever was broken, whatever was flawed, was left in the blind spots, in the shadows.
Photo from Michael Beaton's Berlin photo project to capture "the spilling over of the years on each other" in Berlin by juxtaposing photos from the 1930s, '40s, and '50s with the setting in present day.
RECENTLY, the minister of education of one of the East German states proposed a student exchange program between eastern and western Germany. The rationale was that the two parts of our country are still so different, so foreign to each other, that something must be done to improve their mutual understanding. A similar rationale could be given for a school exchange in this country between Manhattan and Mississippi, between Boise and Detroit, or just between a public and a private school in the same city.
A three-month exchange in your own country, even in your own city? Why not? Or to put it differently: Why? Why should someone who's doing just fine want to know what's happening in the blind spot of his consciousness? When someone with power does something for someone who is powerless, doesn't everything, even his interest itself, turn into a sort of handout? Is it possible, in the end, to take a vacation from the good fortune of one's own birth, just for three months? Just as a test, to broaden one's horizons—and then to quickly retreat into one's own skin? Or is a visit like that really the only chance that a privileged person has to experience what it is like to live in a world that he doesn't know and will never really know? And then? Is that an exchange—or tourism? Should we side with the Communists, who say that a well-meaning gift, or in this case the "well-meaning interest," only shores up the inequality of the system and is thus the opposite of empathy?
Or is it more than a handout when an individual takes it upon himself, for example, to enable another individual to live an independent life? We know the stories of Jewish people who only survived German fascism thanks to the brave decisions of individual helpers who offered them illegal aid. Surely it makes a difference whether a person survives—or not. And not only for that one person but also for the people close to him—friends, parents, and also for his or her children, who may one day come into the world, the grandchildren who may follow.
Shouldn't we always remember that we are all survivors in historical terms? The offspring of wars, massacres, natural disasters, misery—thanks to countless lucky accidents that saved the lives of our ancestors, thanks to numerous insurrections and revolutions, upheavals and new beginnings, thanks to helping hands like these, one in this century, one in another? How can we slip out of these two roles that world history has assigned us: victim and perpetrator? Or do the roles reverse of their own accord, and then reverse again and again? And if we happen to find ourselves among the better-off for the time being, do we buy an apartment? Where is the line that divides "us" from what is "foreign," what is "other"? Why is it just as difficult to come to terms with the foreign, with the other, as it is to come to terms without it? How well do you know your kidney? How well do you know your femur? Not well, I hope—but are they foreign to you? For the viruses and bacteria that live inside our bodies, the space within our skin is an entire planet. Orders of magnitude are always important. Also. Or is the real point something else entirely? Who are we, that we may enjoy happiness at the expense of others thanks to a simple matter of selection? How long is the ramp from Auschwitz, anyway—and is it made of time? Perhaps it still hasn't come to an end? Selection . . .
How can we slip out of these two roles that world history has assigned us: victim and perpetrator?
These are not rhetorical questions. These are questions that I ask myself. This country, for example, which was a place of refuge for the poor and the lost of Europe, still suffers today from the massive violence that was inflicted upon the indigenous Americans and upon the "slaves" imported from Africa. This country wants to show the whole world the happy ending of history, and yet it fails to arrive at an understanding even within its own borders, as we've seen day after day for 150 years. But we also see that attempts to repress this problem increasingly end in failure. And this failure expresses itself in violence. Yes, the word "freedom" sounds beautiful. But "equal rights" sounds beautiful as well.
AND YET: can we even afford equal rights? After all, we live on a planet in the middle of an unfathomable cosmos, on this lone planet with its limited resources. "The last war will be fought for the air we breathe," the wonderful German dramatist Heiner Müller once wrote. Yes, it's true, the resources are limited. But it's also true that 90 percent of the world's wealth is in the hands of 10 percent of the world's population. Or to say it once again, to put it clearly: 90 percent of the world's population is forced to share only 10 percent of the world's wealth. And even within this ridiculous 10 percent there is a hierarchy that drops off sharply. From physics and chemistry we know that gradients tend toward equilibrium. Have we forgotten that victories are always only temporary? Any expansion in the wake of victory is always expansion on the territory of the defeated, and that is always unfamiliar territory. The arrogance of the victor impedes cognition; that is the victor's greatest weakness, all human consequences aside.
WE ARE NOW several thousand years into the history of education, and yet a professor at an elite university in this country can still imagine no other criterion, no other possible basis for a person's social acceptance, aside from sheer usefulness. The human being is degraded to a sort of raw material. To be sure, this attitude might resonate in a society structured around the maximization of profit. But human beings, thank God, are not machines that can be turned on and off at will. You and I don't want to be slaves, but slaves, of course, do not want to be slaves either. The experiences, memories, hopes, traumas, griefs, and joys of all people, including the disregarded and discarded, spread their branches far and wide, across places and times, obeying rules that we barely know. What appears from the perspective of Europe or North America to be nothing but a blind spot is, in fact, an entire world, whether we look at it or not—even if these worlds are hidden behind walls, fences, in far-off camps, or in the bad neighborhood around the corner. A meter-high fence is not a sign of strength but a sign of fear. A sign of the fear of being questioned. Fear of loss, poverty, and death. That is our fear, and it is no different from the fear of the people on the other side of the fence. For we were made from dust, and to dust we shall return. In other words: We, you and I, come from shitholes, too.
Translation from the German
By Kurt Beals
Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. After graduating from high school, she first trained as a bookbinder before going on to study theater science and music stage direction. While working as an opera director, she debuted with her short novel Story of the Old Child, which was followed by other literary publications, including novels, short stories, and stage plays. Her novel The End of Days was enthusiastically received by both the public and press alike and has been awarded several prizes, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (along with her translator, Susan Bernofsky) in 2015. For her latest novel, Go, Went, Gone, she won, among other awards, the Thomas Mann Prize and the Premio Strega Europeo. In 2017 Erpenbeck was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Her new essay collection in German, No Novel, is forthcoming in 2018.
Kurt Beals is an assistant professor of German at Washington University in St. Louis. He has translated such authors as Anja Utler, Regina Ullmann, and Reiner Stach.
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If you are planning to coach a team with Henderson United Youth Soccer or Southern Highlands® United Youth Soccer for the Fall 2018 season, you can now include your Team Profile information on your Fall 2018 coach registration form. SNSA will be using a new registration system for the Fall 2018 season which will allow coaches to submit team profile information, including jersey color preferences, level of play, and returning player list. Returning players listed on your Team Profile must register on time to guarantee their spot on your team. The assignment of non-returning players to teams is governed by the SNSA Rostering Policy guidelines (see link below). Uniform color requests are granted on a first-come, first-serve basis based on the date the coach registration form is submitted.
Southern Nevada Soccer Association is committed to providing a safe environment for kids to play soccer. All SNSA coaches and team managers are required to complete the Soccer Association for Youth (SAY) volunteer screening application, which is included as part of the SNSA coach registration form. Coaches and team managers must also have a current background check. New coaches to SNSA and returning coaches whose background checks have expired will be subjected to a Reference Services background check that is integrated with our coach registration system. Background checks expire three years after the approval date. We thank our coaches and team managers for complying with our volunteer screening protocol.
The SAY National Concussion Policy consists of two very distinct procedures. This policy is required for ALL coaches and officials regardless of their age and/or status. These procedures are designed to comply with legislation concerning concussion in youth sports. It will be necessary to complete a concussion training course every three (3) years.
STEP 1: The first portion of the SAY National Concussion policy is the taking of a FREE online training course. ALL coaches and team managers MUST complete this training course prior to participating in any SAY activity, whether it be a practice or a game situation. SNSA has chosen the Center for Disease Control and Prevention "Heads Up Concussion in Youth Sports" online training course. Click on the online training course link below to access the course. After successfully completing the on-line training, the volunteer will receive a personalized "certificate of completion" to keep on-hand at all games and practices, and to submit to SNSA for our records. Note: the CDC concussion training course is waived for returning SNSA coaches that have completed the Sideline Sports Doc injury management course within the past 3 years.
Listed below you will find helpful links for the CDC concussion training program, and for signs and symptoms of concussion, a concussion notification form, and a Return-to-Play form.
Click to launch this free concussion training course.
The SNSA Team Resource Kit provides useful information for team management and player safety.
USSF Best Practices provide age-appropriate guidelines for player development.
PEP (Prevent injury and Enhance Performance) provides warmup and stretching exercises to keep your players healthy.
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Surging Kings cool Penguins with third-period flurry – Orange County Register
LOS ANGELES –– The Kings scored three goals in a span of 83 seconds in the third period to take control in their 6-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night at Crypto.com Arena.
Center Anze Kopitar had two goals and an assist to pace the Kings, who won for the fifth time in their last six games. It was Kopitar's seventh multipoint game of the season and his first since Nov. 30.
Rookie defenseman Sean Durzi had a career-high three points with a goal and two assists. Wingers Dustin Brown and Viktor Arvidsson and defenseman Mikey Anderson each scored a goal, and wingers Trevor Moore and Alex Iafallo contributed two assists apiece. Jonathan Quick made 27 saves.
Winger Brendan Lemieux was a late scratch and Samuel Fagemo made his NHL debut in Lemieux's stead.
Defenseman Kris Letang and winger Radim Zahorna scored for a Pittsburgh team that had won 11 of its previous 12 games. Forward Jeff Carter returned to Staples Center for the first time since being traded last season and was honored with a first-period video tribute. Penguins goaltender Tristan Jarry had 39 saves.
With 1:40 left, the Kings added an insurance goal, with an offensive-zone faceoff win setting up Durzi's goal from the blue line.
After the Kings' third-period deluge, Quick still found time to make one more larcenous save, snaring winger Kasperi Kapanen's wrist shot with his glove immediately following a dangerous giveaway.
A minute and 50 seconds after Pittsburgh drew even, the Kings responded with two goals in 10 seconds and then a third 73 seconds later. Kopitar set up Anderson with a diagonal pass across most of the zone for Anderson, who hammered a slap shot for his first goal of the season.
Then it was winger Trevor Moore skating down a long pass along the boards and sending the puck across to an open Arvidsson for a redirection goal.
Lastly, it was Durzi moving the puck low for winger Iafallo, who slid it across to Kopitar for a tap-in tally.
Less than two minutes into the final period, the Penguins had tied the score. It was Zohorna finding quiet ice between the circles and one-timing the puck between Quick's pad and blocker.
The Kings carried a 2-1 edge and a 30-17 advantage in shots on goal into the second intermission, thanks to a power-play goal and some late-period magic from Quick, thwarting an odd-man rush and a breakaway in the final minute.
After a first period that saw a goal per side and some more superb saves by Quick, Jarry owned the second period, making a number of challenging stops in a period when he faced 20 shots to Quick's eight. They included stopping a short-handed Blake Lizotte breakaway and, earlier, stoning Iafallo at the end of a tic-tac-toe sequence during a power play.
During that same power play, however, the Kings earned their first lead of the night, almost 35 minutes into the game. Durzi's shot created a rebound that Brown popped in from the side of the net. Brown has four points in as many games since exiting COVID protocols.
In the opening frame, Letang, Carter and Malkin were all in on an attack that saw Quick stick to one post on his knees to obviate a wraparound attempt. He went into scramble mode to make multiple saves on that side of the net before powering across to deny a Malkin follow-up on the opposite side of his goal crease.
Kopitar evened the score with 6:12 left in the period after the Penguins failed to exit their own zone, leaving a loose puck in the slot. Kopitar skated into a shot that zipped past Jarry to the near side. After scoring seven goals in 17 days in October, Kopitar scored as many goals on Thursday, two, as he scored in all of November and December combined. He still leads the Kings in assists and overall scoring.
The Kings had nearly knotted the game on defenseman Olli Maatta's shot from the slot, which hit a goalpost and then banked off Jarry's back before he was narrowly able to locate and cover the puck.
Pittsburgh opened the scoring at the 4:42 mark on a fluky goal. An offensive-zone faceoff win allowed defenseman Brian Doumolin to load up a shot that went wide and hit the end boards. Letang had activated, enabling him to find the puck below the goal line. He flicked the puck laterally, where it caromed off the bottom of Quick's right pad and into the net.
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It's a crisp fall day in New York City. The leaves are just starting to turn into their vivid blend of red, yellow, and orange. He wakes up in his lovely Manhattan apartment and pours himself a cup of coffee. It's so hot that he burns his tongue as he reads the front page of The New York Times. They've written about it again. Another story about a small rural town in Wisconsin that chose red over blue last November. This small town and its economically anxious citizens played a part in the global shockwave over the results of the Presidential election.
He furrows his brow and looks out the window at the vast New York skyline, a neverending jungle of steel and glass. He knows what he must do. Yes, he must return to politics! His beloved turn on late night television as a comedic pundit must make a comeback! But how? He ponders the question carefully before settling on the concept: a film. A film about American politics, about the great divide, about how money corrupts everything. A film by Jon Stewart: that's what America needs.
Jon Stewart's Irresistible is a Capra-esque relic. The script feels as if it had been written in that hazy period after his final appearance on The Daily Show in August 2015 and that ill-fated night in November 2016. The film, set in 2017, focuses on Democratic campaigner Gary Zimmer (Steve Carrell). Gary, the so-called grand consigliere behind the disastrous Clinton campaign, is still hurting from the crushing defeat when he sees a viral video of Marine Colonel Jack Hastings (Chris Cooper) raising hell at a town hall meeting in Deerlaken, Wisconsin to defend the rights of immigrant workers. Gary's vulture-like instincts lead him to swoop down on Jack and offer him aid in running for mayor. In Gary's politically shrewd eyes, Jack is the exact kind of Democrat his party needs to succeed in the now Republican-controlled rust belt.
Gary brings in the full might and influence of the DNC, thus attracting the attention of the RNC, who send in their operative: a Nixonian ice queen named Faith (Rose Byrne). She's dressed in killer heels and ready to lie until she wins. She and Gary have a love/hate relationship that's made of the stuff romantic comedies dream of – they argue on national television to the point where he steps into her box (she's mere feet away from him on the same part of Main Street). It's really only when Gary and Faith go at each other's jugulars before kissing that the film really works. They might be opposite sides of the political spectrum, but they're financially secure enough to never let it be a problem for their sexual escapades.
The jokes here fit the kind of world that Stewart has built, and because of that, they feel safe. There's jokes about Dems loving lattes and hating bad Wi-Fi connections, but also jokes about the NRA's hatred of Black people who want to own firearms. Deerlaken is a cutesy (read: white) town where everyone gets along and doesn't care about political differences, and where giving a nunnery a pamphlet about abortion rights could derail a campaign to run for mayor. There's nothing wrong with this town at all, it's the kind of cradle of Americana that Capra loved to adore and Lynch loves to scorn. The film focuses on the corruptive nature of super PACs and outsized financial influences on elections with the same kind of energy that can be found on Pod Save America or NPR; politics as sports for the people who only watch the Super Bowl once every five years. This cake of rainbows and smiles about the American political system turns sour in the third act, when one of the most ill-conceived twists in the past several years gets unleashed upon the viewer. It's not only colossally stupid, but condescending and arrogant. Somehow, it manages to outdo Vice in terms of contempt for its viewers.
Money in politics is bad, right? Money shouldn't rewrite bills or swing elections or provide platforms to hateful ideologies. That's about as far as Stewart gets in this film, and from there he slides into privileged idiocy. Irresistible posits that the media is to blame for everything and that the American people, especially ones in small conservative towns that get profiled by writers in The New York Times and The Atlantic, are to be absolved of their actions and beliefs. The film explains away Trump's victory as one driven by economic anxieties and general disconnect between Democrats and the white middle class. It does not touch on Trump's racism and xenophobia a single time. It does not touch on voter suppression or gerrymandering at all. It relies on a bullshit fairy tale about the so-called heartland of America concocted by aliens who impersonate human journalists.
Jon Stewart is no Capra. While he shares the same naivety about the innate goodness of the American people, he lacks Capra's skills as an artist. Irresistible wasn't planned to come out at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement exploded with a widespread and continued support it had never seen before to the point where a major city is actively committed to disbanding the police department, or when a global pandemic revealed that the ideological selfishness ingrained in American citizens would lead to an obituary section that could reach across from the stormy coasts of Maine to the smoggy skies of Los Angeles. And yet here it is, still disingenuous about the state of America.
At a time when the decline of the American empire unfolds before our very eyes, when a third of the population has decided that they would rather spread a plague and harm others than wear a mask, when the police are openly bragging about their mafioso status and lust to kill Black people, and when Trump and his policies are a danger to every American that's not a straight white male Christian, Stewart has decided to be a wimp. The evil in the heart of America has always been there, and if anything, the past four years have a brutal reminder of that. The media may have exacerbated it, but greed, selfishness, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, and racism were already in the hearts of most Trump voters on that cold November day. They were always a basket of deplorables.
Irresistible is divorced from our reality, and it suggests that Jon Stewart might be too. As Republicans greet authoritarianism with open arms and Democrats undergo an identity crisis driven by generational gaps and financial status, now is not the time for Stewart's banal and disingenuous points about politics that only serve a specific group of Americans. And if that's all he has to offer? Then I hope from the bottom of my heart that he finds the finest needle and thread available at Michael's and sews his mouth shut.
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Finalist – Afghan Young Women Feminist Network
AfghanistanApril 3, 2013
We will train 30 Afghan young women's from Kabul province of Afghanistan with the knowledge and abilities to use the internet as a tool to share information and findings with the peers and to be able to be actively involved in the process of creating the content of the RUIDAD Publication| The First Feminist Publication in Afghanistan. The participants will be divided into two groups of 15 persons each at two separate sessions of morning & afternoon to be trained. participants will learn: interviewing of Afghan women activists, researching information, basis of blogs & social networking.
Finalist – India: Strengthening Human Rights Defenders in Women Rights Monitoring
IndiaApril 2, 2013
Human rights defenders (HRDs) already engaged in monitoring violations of rights of women belonging to adivasis, dalits and minority communities in Odisha will be trained to use mobiles handsets to take photographs, record oral statements of victims and others, keep the data in a computer at a safe place, transfer it to concerned bodies for filing complaints to human rights commissions to ensure justice to victims. One Training will be organized to capacitate 30 HRDs of Odisha. 5 HRDs will be provided with necessary hand-holding supports to monitor women rights violations in a better manner.
Finalist – Kenya: The Maasai Woman Diary
KenyaMarch 30, 2013
After the Kenya General elections in March 2013, Kenya will have the first government under the new constitution. Women need to be educated on the opportunities and benefits that come with the new system of governance. This will change the daily activities of the maasai woman. Women will be encouraged to tap the opportunities available to better their lives. This project seeks to give women a voice amidst a culture that dictates for a society ruled by men making women the subject. It will also highlight their socioeconomic needs and share it will the world in a bid to create possible solutions
Finalist – Uganda: Female Documentary Film Training on Women Advocacy
UgandaMarch 29, 2013
"One out of three women will experience Violence in her life time"! Women around the world are subjected to violence in many forms that has reduced opportunities for women to compete favorably at all levels. These forms of violence include human trafficking, sexual violence and harmful traditional practices like Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The more violence against women continues, the more their rights are restricted. The project is meant to enlighten and awaken this group to acquire skills on how to document women's issues and support women rights activism in our society.
Bolivia: Web 2.0 for Women's Rights
BoliviaMarch 5, 2013
The city of El Alto is characterized for its maintenance of a organizational syndicalist structure dominated mostly by men, and few women have managed to take leadership roles in these structures. However, women from El Alto have all the qualities to enter these digital spaces. We propose to work with adolescent women – young people from three schools and teach the use of web 2.0 technologies to the benefit of the city of El Alto.
Kenya: Organizing Women Against Fish For Sex Trade
KenyaMarch 3, 2013
We hope to organize women to tackle issues of their reproductive rights. We will focus on women fish mongers on the ten beaches of Lake Victoria who are dehumanized by fishermen on the beaches. They are forced to have sex with the men before they have access to fish which they sell for their survival. This callous and dangerous situation perpetuates the infection of HIV/AIDS, resulting in forming strong networks in control of the fish trade.
Pakistan: Capacity Building (Gender Mainstreaming) of Community Activists
PakistanMarch 3, 2013
This project will be implemented at Unioun Council(UC) Lamnian,district Hattian,AJ&K.Ther total 80 community activists will be trained in the field of Gender main streaming and women empowerment.They will be sensitized that why the participation of the women in development is most important and we can not ensure the real development in the region with out the active and productive participation of the women in all fields of the development.
Mexico: The Mapping of Femicide in the State of Mexico
MexicoMarch 3, 2013
It will train a group of 30 women to develop a public platform through interactive maps, using tools like google earth and google maps. This will share data, pictures and information about places where there have been disappearances of women and femicide according to news reports and local information, which will help to raise awareness of violence in the State of Mexico and for the government to guarantee the rights of women.
Armenia: Women's Voices through Citizen Media
ArmeniaMarch 2, 2013
We are planning to organize a 4-day summer camp focused on citizen media training activities the aim of which is the awareness raising and empowerment of young women and girls from rural areas. The result of this camp will be well informed, educated and empowered participants ready to advocate for their rights, trained how to raise their voices through citizen media and transmit gained knowledge and skills to their local community members.
Nepal: Raise and Rise
NepalMarch 2, 2013
This project aims to equip survivors of trafficking with knowledge and skills of story gathering. 10 women will be trained on interview skills, recorder handling, audio editing and digital photography. They will produce a weekly radio show broadcast through local radio. We believe that empowering women with skills to interview will not only help raise their voice but also help them rise in their community where they are stigmatized and excluded.
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ANAHEIM, CALIF. – Citrix Systems Inc. has rolled out another version of XenMobile, its solution for managing mobile devices in the enterprises – and this iteration has some new features targeted towards business users who want to boost their productivity.
During its Synergy conference this week, Citrix unveiled its latest version of XenMobile 9, which now features military-grade encryption of the data stored on corporate smartphones, as well as data in motion or in transit between devices. The company has also added support for Windows Phone 8, aiming the solution towards users across all mobile devices.
Beyond that, however, Citrix has added some new features to its WorxMail and WorxWeb apps, designed to make business users' lives easier. For example, WorxWeb, which provides secure web access, now has a better user interface and support for users who are viewing pages while they're offline. WorxMail now has a "triage" option, giving users the ability to quickly flip through their email, swiping upwards to mark an email as "read" and swiping downwards to delete it.
Citrix also has some other new features under construction, like WorxNotes, an app allowing users to capture notes and add photos and audio recordings to them. Users will also be able to join calendar invites and conference calls while they're on the go – for example, a user who is driving can just tap an emailed calendar invite once to join a call, directly within in the email. And a team of users can collaborate on notes, as they are shared in Citrix's StoreFile.
There's also WorxEdit, which gives users the ability to edit files on their mobile devices. They can grab these files from WorxMail, their corporate desktops, or through ShareFile. And again, they're able to collaborate on the edits with their co-workers. Then there's WorxDesktop, making files, apps, and desktops available through mobile devices. This app provides remote connectivity to a physical desktop at home or back in the office.
What sets these apps apart from the default, native emails preloaded onto users' phones is their ability to make people more productive, said Chandra Sekar, Citrix's director of product marketing.
"The default email client you have with, say, iOS, or even the default email client you have with Android, is built with the consumer in mind … I need an email system that is designed with the business user in mind," Sekar said in an interview, adding the email apps on iOS and Android don't allow users to attach notes to calendar invites.
And while it may seem that some of these changes are just incremental, Sekar said these features are exclusively available with Citrix, and that they're "sought after" among customers.
"Mobility moves at such a rapid pace, and people kind of expect a certain level of feature changes between versions … but certainly, I would not minimize the number of new capabilities we have with XenMobile 9.0," he said.
Sekar added he expects to see more uptake of Windows Phone 8 in Europe, where many customers have a brand affinity with Nokia.
For Kevin Burden, an analyst with Strategy Analytics, XenMobile 9 was one of the most interesting announcements to come out of Citrix's Synergy conference.
"Anything they can do to make mail a lot easier for people to use, to get through, to spend less time – that's somewhat interesting," he said, adding the added support for Windows Phone 8 was also significant.
And Chris Hazelton, an analyst with 451 Research, said he believes the added security features in XenMobile 9 will make the solution more attractive to government institutions, especially in the U.S.
The enhancements to WorxMail and WorxWeb will be available next month, while WorxNotes, WorxEdit, and WorxDesktop will be in technology preview.